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Ferries.
CHAPTER 104.
[CAP. 104
FERRIES.
To regulate ferries and jerry piers.
[30th November, 1917.]
Originally 28 of 1917. Fraser
28 of 1917.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Ferries Short title. Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance-
"ferry" means any service, conducted by means of a vessel or vessels propelled by any means except oars and sails, for the conveyance of persons or of persons and things by water for payment or reward, between two or more points within the Colony, whether such service is also to any point or points without the Colony or not and whether the points between which the service is provided are varied from time to time or not, but does not include the hiring of any vessel to one person for a single journey and does not include the hiring of any vessel to a single pleasure party;
"ferry pier" means any pier which is used for the purposes of a ferry.
"ferry vessel" means any vessel which is employed for the purpose of a ferry;
"illegal ferry" means a ferry which is maintained in contravention of section 3;
(2) Any person who has at any time been entitled to any share in the profits of an illegal ferry shall be deemed to have maintained such ferry during the period in respect of which he was so entitled, and any owner of a ferry vessel, or if the vessel is under charter, any charterer of the said vessel, shall be presumed to have been entitled to a share in the profits of the ferry until he proves affirmatively that he was not entitled to any such share or that such vessel was employed as a ferry vessel without his consent or connivance.
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) shall be construed as relieving from liability any person who, without being
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Interpretation.